Showing posts with label Adelaide Botanic gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adelaide Botanic gardens. Show all posts

Friday, January 26, 2018

Obahn Busway Adelaide Tunnel Entrances Saturday 27 January 2018

A warm 36C in Adelaide today.
My knees were aching for a bike ride.
I cycled in to take some photographs of the new
$160M  Obahn Busway Tunnel opened on
Monday 11 December 2017.
©billpurvis

Buses entering and exiting the Tunnel at the Grenfell Street/East Tce feeder intersection.

The exit from the city along Hackney Road opposite the National Wine Centre and Botanical Gardens.
Goodman Administration Building adjacent to the Old Tram Barn
Goodman Administration Building - Old Tram Barn located Hackney Road

Hackney Road Tunnel Exit/Entrance opposite Goodman Administration Building and the National Wine Centre

Tunnel Entrance/Exit towards Grenfell Street feeder lanes.


from Grenfell Street towards Tunnel Entrance/Exit

Feeding into Grenfell Street after exiting the Tunnel.

The Tunnel Project


Entering the Tunnel after exiting Grenfell Street. The Obahn is a guided busway. The rails are shown in the foreground on either side of each lane.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Recent work: Still Life and Wedding

Still life in Yellow
This was a competition entry. The specifics were the photograph had to be taken on 8 October and the subject was 'Yellow'. While walking the dog at sunset I saw the honey eater lying on the concrete edge of the road. I picked it up gently, in a spare litter bag, its body still felt like it had warmth and was soft. The words on the recycle bin mimicked the discovery, and also the birds likely fate by car but not its demise which was a quiet resting place in the flower bed.
The surreal experience of peering in on its 'final' resting place the next morning to find it vacated led me to various suggestions, it wasn't actually dead and recovered, but what about the ants that had invaded it?, some scavenger of the night had claimed it, a cat, a rat, a snake? Perhaps the recycle bin had foretold its fate.

The Wedding
A friend's sons wedding photographed in the Cycad Garden at The Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, shot on a single roll of Fuji Velvia 100 film  with a Nikon F90X and 28-200 Tamron lens.
It was a hot afternoon in the sun.
I was not the 'Official' photographer - some 'snaps' for a friend.
Text&Images©billpurvis
The bingo (whoops!) boggle girls - Mother of Groom centre.




Accompanied by a Quartet.

Love this informality prior to the ceremony


The Mother of the Bride













Part of the brolly framing the shot.






I was looking for this brolly to frame in a shot and it appeared again at the end of the roll.